SDPD gives man ticket for distributing bottled water to homeless people

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Support Growing For 'Water Man'
David Ross Cited For Providing Water In Public

http://www.10news.com/news/9761690/detail.html

There's a survey about it which you can vote in on that same page.

[mnhtnbb]

1. God forbid we should care about our fellow human beings.

This is the face of "compassionate conservatism", San Diego style.

[malaise]

20. Didn't they deny water to people in NOLA

until their 'contracted' water arrived. Compassionate 'christian' conservatives at work.

[lisainmilo]

2. Unbelieveable!

This world is going to pot!

[Rainscents]

3. Jebus fucking christ...

What the hell is matter with this country? I am so sick and tired of this kind of shit done to poor and to people who want to help poor.

[Rainscents]

4. Bob... There's poll for people to vote, maybe you can ask DUer to

do the poll after they read the article? I did my part.

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5. OK, added that - thanks

[LibDemAlways]

6. San Diego must be remarkably crime free for

an officer to have the time to ticket someone for the awful offense of trying to help the homeless. :sarcasm:

Years ago my husband belonged to a flying club that distributed Thanksgiving dinners to various Indian tribes around the state. (This before the casinos became big business.) One year there was a miscommunication and a tribe near San Diego didn't show up to collect the food. My husband was stuck with several planeloads of thawing turkeys and other supplies. An airport worker heard what was happening and contacted an organization called the San Diego Coalition for the Homeless. They immediately sent trucks to take the food and my husband later received a letter from the woman who headed the organization explaining that over 600 people were fed thanks to their donation. It's a good thing that incident didn't happen today. My husband and the airport worker might just be facing a fine - or worse.

[Initech]

10. San Diego police are a bunch of assholes

I cant tell you how many parking tickets my bro got for things as stupid as not turning the wheel in the right direction.

[ComerPerro]

19. donating that much food might get them the death penalty

especially with Bush in the WH

[rpannier]

7. OMG!!!!!!!!!! Water to the homeless???????!!!!!!!!!!!!

I hope they got out the tar-and-feathers. Then I hope they ran him out of town on a rail.

[tyedyeto]

8. This sounds like the man who put the quarter in parking meters .....

in Santa Cruz, CA. He was told he would be fined if it was proven he put the $.25 in a parking meter for someone he didn't know.

[Mz Pip]

9. Your tax dollars at work

My son is a prosecutor and this is the kind of thing that makes him nuts. There are serious crimes out there that demand the attention of the underpaid overworked DAs. Having to take the time to deal with crap like this is a waste of time, effort and resources. Some poor DA who might actually be concerned about real crime will be handed this and will cringe. What a waste of tax dollars.

It's water fer crissake. Geez.

Mz Pip
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[Scurrilous]

11. "The law says ...

...a person can’t distribute food or water from vehicles."


No 'roach coaches' in San Diego?

[Justice Is Comin]

12. San Diego rips people off for money every way they can.

I got a parking ticket on a side street. I went to get a slice of pizza and couldn't have been gone ten minutes. Cars were parked all along the street and I walked up and down looking to see if I could see any parking restriction sign. I even asked a guy getting out of his Cadillac who was also parking there--is it okay to park here. He said "he never had any problem."

The one place I didn't look for a sign was 12 feet up in a tree. You would have had to be in the tree to see it. I took pictures, wrote a long letter, they said :nopity:

I replied with the $45.00 payment for the fine, shove San Diego up your ass. I had been there actually looking to possibly relocate. Suns a bitches.

[MindPilot]

16. "Suns" of bitches

Too good!

In my neighborhood people regularly get tickets for parking in front of their own garage door in the alley.

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17. And that's just the tip of the iceberg.

You'll pay less in heating and air conditioning costs where you live compared to moving to San Diego and paying sky high prices for the fabled "naturally perfect" climate (which is a myth).

[Selatius]

13. It's illegal to feed homeless people in the parks in Las Vegas, too.

You will get fined for it.

I guess rich upper-class cities are waging their own little "war on poverty" by trying to hide the poor.

[Bozita]

14. kinda like pigeons

[anitar1]

15. Fines for water. A national disgrace.

In fact the country has become a disgrace. I used to grieve over what was happening here, but now I feel the country will hit rock bottom soon. I no longer grieve . It is gone.

[porphyrian]

18. These are the laws that get passed when we don't participate.

Less than a third of registered voters typically bother to vote in primaries, yet this is where local elections are often decided. This particular law was likely passed to stop unlicensed hot dog venders from "stealing" business from established restauranteers (who can afford to lobby to pass such a law). Cops generally ignore these dorky and obscure laws unless they are using them to specifically target someone (like catching a drug dealer with a brake light out), so they were either really bored or trying to discourage this guy, either because he was countering their campaign to make the streets hostile to the homeless so they'd move on or because they didn't like the guy (maybe he's just not republican enough).

If the law says you can't distribute food and drink from a vehicle, there must be a way around it or restaurants would have nothing to serve. I'm thinking it involves a fee this guy doesn't want to pay, not that I believe he should have to for this.